In Reply to: RE: Thanks muchly! posted by Norman M on June 21, 2016 at 08:35:28:
Tympani IIIs tri-amped with Dual 75s on tweeter / midrange and Crown DC-300a on woofers, SP-3a, Linn Sondek LP12/SME/Ortofon SL15. That experience was the first of several major recalibrations I've experienced as to how realistic an audio system could sound.
Alas, I was but a poor teenager at the time. Since I had purchased an HK Citation 11 and Crown D150 from that dealer to drive my Advents with Microstatic tweeters, he lent me the SP-3a over a weekend to audition. I can still remember how much more realistic the shakers and cymbals that open Steely Dan's Do It Again sounded with the ARC. It was then I became both a planar and ARC fan.
As a speaker guy, I had to address that first. Two years later had MG-IIs and another year following, a pair of Acoustat X. Now I was ready for a really good preamp!
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